By Steve Sailer
02/22/2008
While we've been concerned here with trivial matters, like why Princeton U. is blockading access to potential First Lady Michelle Obama’s senior thesis until the day after the election, the ace professionals at Slate are on top of the crucial issue of the moment:
My search for the lost Huckabee tapesHanna Rosin
In her speculation about what might have been in the seldom-available tapes of sermons Mike Huckabee gave at his Baptist church in the 1980s, she concludes with this reason why he might be covering them up:
4. The Queasy Factor–In the one tape I did manage to get–bought on eBay from an enterprising Arkansan–Huckabee preaches on "The Practice of Patience." What could be more pleasant and innocuous, right? Not exactly. Huckabee is his trademark jovial self. He tells a couple of good stories, one about some urban farmers who mistook a watermelon for a mule egg, another about the time his father gave him his first bike–and it was a girl’s bike. But all this is building up to a serious point. "How many times do we find ourselves on the surgery table of the Almighty God, who is trying to work His surgery to make us more like Christ, and we say 'God, let me out of here! Lord, don’t touch me!' " he thunders towards the end. "It’s not that we can’t be Christians. The sad fact is most of us don’t want to be enough to try our faith to the point of patience and perseverance."Huh?It’s one thing to know a presidential candidate was a pastor; that sounds worthy and leaderlike. But it’s quite another to actually hear him work himself up into a lather about committing to Christ and not back it up with a joke.
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